Pillow-sham holder



(No Model.) v J. Af WANLESS.

PILLW SHAM HOLDER.

No. 258,138. Patented Jem. 31,1882.

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Ntra STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. WANLESS, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

PILLOW-SHAM HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,138, dated January 31, 1882.

Application filed October 26, 1881.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. WANLEss, of Toledo, Lucas county, Ohio, have invented an ImprovementinPillow-Sham Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of devices by means of which what are ordinarily termed pillow-shams are secured and held in the varying positions required-that is to say, they will allow such shams to cover'the pillows and sustain them in position when the pillows are not in use, and will enable the said shams to be removed and secured to the head ofthe bed, out ot' the way of the occupants when the bed is in use.

Figure l is a perspective, and Fig. 2 an end elevation.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of parts and their combination, as more fully hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, A represents an eyefastening, designed to be attached in any convenient way to a bedstead, at or near one side ofthe head thereof; B, another fastening, to be similarly secured to the opposite side of the head of the bed in a similar manner, and differs from the fastening A in the following principles: A slot, a, leads into the eye of the fastening B, and in the bottom ot' the eye, oph posite the slot, there is cut a notch, b.

C is a rod of suitable length, to which the sha-ms are to be secured by tying with suitable tapes sewed thereon or otherwise. This rod at one end is provided with a round journal, c, .which is designed to engage with the eye-fastening A. Anothcrjournal, d, is secured to the opposite end of the rod. This latternamed journal, however, is only round for a portion of its periphery, and the balance of the periphery is filed to present a sharpened and attened bearing, e, which is designed at (No model.) a

suitable times, yin the partial rotation of the shaft, to drop .into the notch cut in the lower pillows the operator, taking hold of any por-r tion of the wire frame and raising the same radially, rotates the rod until .the sharpened point of the bearing hereinbefore described falls into the notch in the eye, which occurs when the wire frame has been brought to a vertical position, or so as to rest against the head of the bedstearl. ln raising this wire frame the free ends of the. sham will t'old over it, and the shams will be held in this position until the operator releases the bearing trom Yits engagement with the notch, when the overhanging shams will cause a partial rotation of the shaft and allow the shams to resume their original position upon the pillows.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A pillow-sham holder consisting of a frame, D, a rod, C, and means, substantially as described, for locking the rod and frame in position when partially rotated,as and forthe purpose specified.

2. The combinatiomin a pillow-sham holder,

of the fastenings A B, the rod C, and the frame JOHN A. WANLESS.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, E. SCULLY. 

